Comments on: New RSS Feature: Most recent articles

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:38:18 +0000

Love the RSS feature. I’m looking for something to automate our newsletters, but like Derec above, I don’t want a newsletter to go out unless it has 3 or more posts in it.

Is there any way to say “only send a newsletter if it has 3 posts or more”?

The nouri.sh service has this feature, although it looks like it lacks other features mailchimp has, so I don’t want to change!

Also the ability to set a maximum post count would be nice, that is, leave the remaining posts for next time.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:57:45 +0000

Awesome Ben:
Thanks!
You guys are awesome.. please keep us posted.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:14:16 +0000

Yep, this is in the roadmap for our next release, late October (this month).

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:42:38 +0000

We also would like to schedule the time of our daily email.
3AM is not ideal.
This will effect open rates can reduce click throughs as our readers will not be on their computers when the message is sent.
Please advise.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:07:08 +0000

I would like to echo the request for time-of-day scheduling of automatic RSS emails.

We send out a daily email roundup summarizing the top news of the day on specific issues. We would like to provide an RSS feed of this content as well, and in theory MailChimp’s RSS-to-Mail feature would let us build the RSS feed and have the email follow automatically. Two birds, one stone.

However, it needs to go out around 9am EST, not 3am. The day’s news is not yet published by that time, and none of our staff is awake to read it and add it to the feed.

Just that one simple feature would make a huge difference for us, and many others!

Or, even set a smarter default time… I can’t see how 8AM GMT makes sense for any North American users, except maybe early birds on the West Coast. The daily option is clearly targeted at people sending out frequent messages with fresh content… yesterday’s news is not exactly fresh.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:28:28 +0000

I agree on the time/date option. I am evaluating the free version right now, but that would seal the deal for me. I need to pick the day of the week and time for a weekly RSS to email campaign.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:10:22 +0000

Also , please add timestamps to comments. Would make reading through discussions much easier. Cheers!

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:09:19 +0000

Not sure if the option to choose a custom time of day to send rss-email newsletters is still being considered, but I just wanted to add my vote to the list for this much needed feature.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:11:49 +0000

Please. please set up a time of day option. The default time period is one of the worst times to send emails and it’s effecting our open rates

By: Claudine

Claudine — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:03:53 +0000

I need to choose the day for weekly campaigns. Our experience with campaigns is that Mondays are bad days to send a campaign as most readers are swamped with emails on Monday morning.

Could we also get an option for a campaign to be scheduled every two weeks? If it is easy to do, please provide this option. I blog enough that once per week is o.k. but once a month is way-too-much. Once every two weeks is just perfect for customers to keep your brand in their heads and remain in touch but not upset at getting too many emails from us.